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...since his wooing of Peking began, they exploded in choleric anger as the U.N. resolution confirmed their worst fears. Senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona urged the U.S. to withdraw from the U.N. and expel its headquarters to "some place like Moscow or Peking." California's Governor Ronald Reagan cabled Chiang Kai-shek that the U.N. has been "reduced to the level of a kangaroo court." Said Thomas S. Winter, editor of the rightist magazine Human Events, "Conservatives are furious. I think the Administration hoped it could save Taiwan, but if it was a choice of getting Red China...
...come, their separated brothers on the mainland will look all the more wistfully to Taiwan in consideration of what it has done for its people, and permitted to its people." The West, he added, "did not have the guts" to overthrow Mao's regime, and the dream that Chiang Kai-shek would reconquer the mainland was, alas, "a little counter-revolutionary vision." Turning to the U.N., he described Albania, sponsor of the successful anti-Taiwan resolution, as "a little, reclusive country composed primarily of rocks and serfs, with here and there a slave master, whose principal export is Maoism." Buckley...
...membership. Peking should be admitted, the Americans argued, but there was no justification for expelling the Taipei regime, even if both governments did claim to be the sole legitimate representative of China. The pro-Peking forces argued that it was merely a question of credentials. If both Mao and Chiang claimed to rule all of China, only one could be right. Accordingly, they maintained, Peking, obviously in control of most of China, should be given the seat; the Nationalists, losers in an interrupted civil war, should be tossed out. The U.S. countered with a warning that to expel a member...
...blocked Peking's entry for more than two decades, was now conceding the Communists' claim to a seat, but was also engaged in an epic struggle to save a place in the General Assembly for the embattled, Taiwan-based Nationalist regime of Mao's old enemy, Chiang Kaishek. But with the special antimagic that the U.N. seems to possess in abundance, the buildup to the climax dissolved into hours of stiff speechifying, interspersed with moments of bizarre and totally unrelated melodrama...
...debate followed the script closely enough. In his role as chief executor of Peking's will in New York, Albania's swart Foreign Minister Nesti Nase rasped that Chiang's government "does not represent anything." He demanded swift adoption of the so-called Albanian resolution, which prescribes the seating of the Peking regime and immediate expulsion of the Nationalists. Taipei's embattled Foreign Minister Chow Shu-kai replied heatedly that if Peking has its way, "the era of collective aggression is upon us." The Nationalists' future hangs on the fate of the U.S. proposal...